NASA Has Just Released This Stunning Video of Pluto Flyby

9/18/2015

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NASA has just released this awesome video of Pluto. Fly over
Pluto’s icy mountains and frozen plains in this new video created from images
taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft during the historic July 14 Pluto Flyby.
The newest images downloaded from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft were pooled
together and concentrated on a sphere to make this flyover. This animation, created
with the LORRI (Long Range Reconnaissance Imager) images, starts with a low-altitude
look at the casually named Norgay Montes, travels northward over the boundary
between casually named Sputnik Planum and Cthulhu Regio, turns, and floats
slowly east. Throughout the animation, the elevation of the observer upsurges
until it is about 10 times higher to show about 80% of the hemisphere New
Horizons flew closest to on July 14, 2015.